Philip Carlsen'sFar Psalteriesfor Piano Trio will receive its first performance Sunday, March 3rd at 3:00pm in the Nordica Auditorium at the University of Maine in Farmington. Philip Carlsen, cello, Mary Hunter, violin and James Parakilas, piano. Music by Joaqun Turina, Philip Carlsen, and Dmitri Shostakovich.
By popular demand, Arts Farmington is bringing the Buttonwood Trio back to the stage in Farmington on Sunday, March 3rd, at 3:00pm. The performance will be in the Nordica Auditorium, Merrill Hall, at the University of Maine in Farmington. The trio consists of Philip Carlsen, cello, Mary Hunter, violin, and James Parakilas, piano. They will be performing Joaqun Turinas Piano Trio No. 2 from 1933, Dmitri Shostakovichs Piano Trio No. 2 from 1944, and the world premiere of the piano trio version of Carlsens Far Psalteries. Adult tickets are $20, more if you can, less if you cant. Nobody turned away.
Philip Carlsen taught at the University of Maine at Farmington from 1982 to 2015, conducting the UMF Community Orchestra and offering courses in theory, composition, history of jazz, non-Western music and music in film. His compositions have been performed at the Kennedy Center, New Yorks Town Hall and Museum of Modern Art, at national conferences of the Society of Composers, and throughout Maine. Now a resident of South Portland, Phil plays with the Midcoast Symphony Orchestra and on baroque cello with the professional early music group St. Mary Schola.